Vice President Joe Biden, reflecting on the contraception debate that forced the administration to alter the policy to appease Catholic leaders, said that the administration "screwed up" the first version of the mandate.

I was the one that was tasked to meet with the National Conference of Bishops, and others and Cardinal Dolan, to talk about this," Biden said in remarks at Iowa State University Thursday. "The fact of the matter is, the ultimate resolution to this problem is where it should have been in the first place.

As if the second version where the church has to pay insurance companies to provide birth control and aboritfacient drugs, but the insurance company can't include it as a separate line item (i.e. it is called "free") is any better. They still haven't answered what happens if the church owned hospital or school is self-insured like many large organizations are.

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posted on 03/02/2012 6:19:12 AM PST
by KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)

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